Plant & Animal Genomes XIV Conference

January 14-18, 2006
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

A Database For Genetic Analysis Software

Zhi-liang Hu¹ , James M. Reecy ¹ , Wentian Li²

¹  Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, 2255 Kildee Hall, Ames, IA 50011

²  The Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics, North Shore LIJ Research Institute

With the rapid progress in genetics and genomes, there are an increasing number of genetic analysis software programs, each with pre-defined scope, assumption, and applicable situation for use. To choose suitable software for use from the large number of available programs often becomes a daunting task even before one starts the analysis. To go through the software lists found on the internet is time-consuming for an average researcher. We have created a database and related tools to effectively archive, annotate, and manage the wealth of the software information for easily identifying, locating, and retrieving. We have also introduced ontology concept and tools to manage the proper classification and feature annotation of this resource. To date, there are 339 software programs listed in the category of “genetics analysis”. We plan to add genomics analysis software soon.